Napoleon Bonaparte, concludes convention with United States, 146; acquires Louisiana, 146; sends Leclerc against Santo Domingo, 146; sells Louisiana to United States, 149-50; his Berlin Decree, 187; his Milan Decree, 188; sequesters American vessels, 189-200; and the embargo, 191-92; revokes decrees, 200. _National Gazette_, Republican newspaper, 65. National Road, construction of, 256; appropriations for, 258; bill for collection of tolls on, 309. Naturalization Act, _of 1798_, 109; _of 1801_, 135-36. Navigation laws, want of power in Congress to pass, 7; of the States, 8; passed by Congress (1789), 51; and shipping, 124. Navy of the United States, in 1798-99, 101; under Jefferson, 133; in Tripolitan War, 144-45; in the War of 1812, 212-30, _passim_. Navy Department, established, 101. Neutrality, proclamation of, 72-73. Neutral trade. _See_ Commerce. New England Confederacy, projected in 1804, 163-66. New England Federalism, characteristics of, 161-63; and the embargo, 192-93, 195-96. New Hampshire, ratifies the Constitution, 41; on assumption, 60; and the Hartford Convention, 224. New Jersey, and its neighbors under the Confederation, 8; ratifies the Constitution, 41. New Orleans, battle of, 227. Newspapers, character of, in 1800, 107, 110, 112; founding of, 112. New York, treatment of the Tories in, 4; ratifies the Constitution, 42-43; settlement of western, 248; constitution of 1821, 304-05. New York City, and Western trade, 255-56; as a literary center, 286. Nicholson, Joseph, and the impeachment of Pickering, 139; on the nature of impeachable offenses, 140. Nominating methods, changes in, 305, 307, 308. Non-Importation Act of 1806, 181, 188. Non-Intercourse Act of 1809, 196; evasions of, 198-99; enforcement of, 198-99; revived against England, 201. Nootka Sound affair, 69. _North American Review_, founded 283-84. North Carolina, and the Watauga settlers, 14-15; rejects the Constitution, 44; ratifies the Constitution, 55. Northwest, receives settlers from New England, 13-14, 247; from the Middle States, 248; from the South, 248-49; commerce of, 252-54. Ohio Company, origin of, 10-11; concessions of Congress to, 11-12; begins colonization, 13. Ohio, taxes branch Bank of the United States, 268; seizes funds, 340; forced to make restitution, 341. Olmstead, Gideon, claimant in federal courts, 333-34. Onis, Luis de, Spanish Minister to the United States, 262-64. Orders in council, _of 1783_, 3; _of 1793-94_, 77-78; _of 1807_, 188; withdrawal in 1812, 210. Ordinance of 1784, 9; _of 1785_, 10; _of 1787_, 12-13. Oregon, joint occupation of, 259. Otis, Harrison Gray, 225. Palfrey, John G., 287. Panama, Congress, invitation to, 320-21; opposition in Congress to, 322-23; fate of the mission, 323. Paper money, continental, 5; state, 17-18. Paris, Treaty of, aftermath of, 1-2. Parsons, Samuel, 11.